Ken Griffey Jr and make a wish
Make a wish is Seattle based
program where
Children with deadly life threatening illnesses
Are given a wish
And athletes are giving back
A last request to visit Disneyland
I am proud last year
My Granddaughter offered to donate
Her summer between college classes
As an intern in the program
She helped find the sponsors.
You've seen the pictures
Athletes at the bed of a dying Cancer patient
One special easy to approach Ken Griffey Jr
Always there for the kids
One patient whose hero was Ken Griffey Jr
Made his last wish to meet his hero
Ken Griffey visited him in the hospital
Not too big an athlete not to care
But Ken excused himself and left the room
As the story goes
The thought was he went to the bathroom
But a half hour he did not come back
Some athletes it is just publicity
Not Ken, he did come back
He had driven home and from his own collection
Came back with balls and bats to autograph
For his own hero
The boy who had one last wish
Ken has used his influence on other athletes
Make a wish is surviving and growing
In Seattle as other cities where athletes care
And all lives matter
What we do with our own lives
Is Judged by entrance to Eternity
Not the wealth we accumulate
That we leave behind
Kids are the legacy we leave behind
Not the acculation of wealth